Remission admission

Now I don't want people to think that all I do these days is bash Catholics, a lot of my best friends are Catholics! but come on guys your organisation continually offers up such low hanging fruit!

Today we have the story of a 49 year old Polish nun working in France, who had Alzheimers disease, apparently she was on the verge of quitting her position because of the severity of the illness when she prayed to ex-Pope John Paul II and wrote his name on a piece of paper, hey presto her movement difficulties vanished and she seemed cured. Since then her case has been instrumental in the Catholic church commencing the process to beatify John Paul. This is the first stage involved in making someone a "saint", something which supposedly cannot happen unless a "miracle" relating to the candidate has been proven (I use the word "proven" in the religious sense and not the scientific one).

Now, according to recent reports, there is new doubt about the nature of her condition, it may not be Alzheimers after all and unfortunately for Sister Marie-Simon-Pierre her obvious remission from whatever condition she does suffer from has come to an end.

One wonders how many other "miracles" fall into this category? Modern mechanisms for recording and diagnosing medical conditions must be a complete pain in the butt for those engaged in the "miracle" business.

It seems baffling to me that a group of people feel unable to adequately honour the life of a person they revere without the need for all this superstitious hocus-pocus and wish thinking, in the end it adds nothing but dishonour.